Order number: 8615

About this work:

Rafael Alberti relates in his autobiography La arboleda perdida how he has, since childhood, always been attracted to the letters of the alphabet, &#171not to its sound or meaning, but to its graph, the visual representation of the letters that make up a word&#187. In 1975, during his exhile in Rome, he created the portfolio Il lirismo dell'Alfabeto, a homage to the alphabet, of 50 plates created with the most diverse techniques. To each letter he dedicated a black and white and a colour print, both signed and numbered by him. The colour version is done with the techiques of lithography, silkscreen, xilography or etching. The black and white version is always a silkscreen.

The complete portfolio of Il lirismo dell'Alfabeto contains, besides of the 50 plates (25 in colour and 25 in black and white), a colour plate with the poem &#171Il lirismo dell'Alfabeto&#187. It also includes a detailed sheet about the edition and the techniques used. The case is lined with Iris cloth and measures 65 x 50 cm.